The following three links present French rapper Diams's recent decision to start wearing the veil. You may also read the lyrics and listen to the song "Ecorchee vive."

• Diam's Ecorchée Vive (YouTube)
• Ecorchée Vive lyrics
• Diam's adopte le voile | Du rap au voile, itinéraire d'une paumée

A MUSLIM WOMAN, A STORY OF SEX
by Alan Riding | June 20, 2005
New York Times book review of The Almond

TAKING THE VEIL (image a; image b)
by Jane Kramer (the New Yorker)

THE SECULAR PRINCIPLE
by Jean Bauberot

ISLAM IN/OF FRANCE: DILEMMAS OF TRANSLOCALITY
by John R. Bowen

IMMIGRATION IN POSTWAR FRANCE
by Tony McNeill

AU COEUR DE L'AFFAIRE | English translation
par Luis Cardoso

DE L'AFFICHAGE DE L'APPARTENANCE RELIGIEUSE DANS L'ESPACE PUBLIC | English translation
par Alain Seksig

LE FOULARD NEST PAS MUSULMAN
par Odon Vallet | English translation

FRENCH AGAINST FRENCH: THE UNEASY INCORPORATION OF BEURS INTO FRENCH SOCIETY
par Hélène Jaccomard

RAI-RELATED VOCABULARY

KEY EVENTS IN THE ISLAMIC HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY

KEY EVENTS IN THE CONTROVERSY OVER STATE FUNDING OF ISLAMIC SCHOOLS IN GREAT BRITAIN

SECOND FRENCH CONSULATE IN U.S. AGREES TO ALLOW MUSLIM HEADSCARF IN PASSPORT PHOTO
North Carolina resident still denied the right to wear Islamic scarf for national ID | April 25, 2000

THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE LAW IN FRANCE
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